Chai Tong Confesses

Lu Feng smiled calmly and pointed to the papers on the ground. "Go take a look yourself, and you'll know."

Zheng Ba hurried forward and began reading them.

Dan Wu guessed, "Sir, you don't actually have any conclusive evidence, do you? Otherwise, you wouldn't be putting on such a bluff."

Xing Qi could not help retorting, "Second Brother, that's not quite right. If there were no evidence, how could mere bluffing scare those two so badly that they trembled in terror?"

Dan Wu was momentarily speechless.

Lu Feng smiled and nodded. "There truly isn't any conclusive evidence. I merely wrote down an authority that a prison official can exercise."

Xing Qi looked at Lu Feng in astonishment.

Wang Wei had already anticipated it. Now that Lu Feng had said it outright, he could not help being deeply moved. "Sir, this is far too risky. What if..."

"There is no what if," Lu Feng interrupted confidently.

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand any of it?" Xing Qi's astonished expression carried a trace of confusion.

By then, Zheng Ba had already read over half of the page. He could not help crying out, "Sir... Sir is offering his life as collateral to request that Grand Prison dispatch a Soul Searching Envoy to verify the suspect!"

Offering one's life as collateral meant that prison officials had no authority to summon a Soul Searching Envoy unless they put up their own lives as a pledge. Such an extreme measure was generally only taken when one was completely certain of the suspect's guilt but lacked the evidence needed to establish that the suspect was the murderer.

Once the request was approved and a Soul Searching Envoy dispatched, if no information regarding the murder could be searched from the suspect's memories, the prison